I spent 18 months in Holland trying to open shops and I would come back on the plane thinking, How are we going to do this?
Stocks fell for a fourth day on Thursday, but recovered most of their losses after the House, in the barest sign of progress, said it would come back to work on the fiscal crisis this weekend.
And when I'd come back on Sunday, one of the owners gave me this bitchy look and said: "Oh, you're back.
I figured I'd get buried in that gold suit up there under a tombstone that reads: "Here lies the world's, the galaxy's, and the universe's number-one ultimate Elvis fan" then I'd come back on Halloween night and haunt my ex-wife.
I'd get tapes the next day, and I'd come back on weekends.
If I felt comfortable enough by December, I'd come back on full-time and go to the office each day.
Most of the lights below Thirty-ninth Street in Manhattan were off — more than six hundred thousand customers were without power in boroughs across the city, about seven million in the region — and it was hard to say when they would come back on.
It appeared unlikely on Tuesday that major exhibitors would come back on board, as security concerns were compounded by anger over Sony's handling of "The Interview". North America's four largest chains — Regal, AMC, Cinemark and Carmike — either declined to comment or did not respond to queries.
I know now I should have searched for access to a radio, I could have even run back outside and jumped back into the car, but it all happened so fast, and I kept thinking the TV would come back on.
Frank would do the first 25 minutes, get the audience on his side, introduce me, I'd do 30 minutes of old material to a lukewarm reception, Frank would come back on stage, and we'd sing a song we'd written called It's Over Now.
